Quotes About Education

I'd like to get away from diseases of the week.

The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.

It's amazing, the number of people who don't have passports, who can't read, who can't write. It's sick actually. It's disgusting.

It should be that every child, when they leave school, can do ten meals, because when they leave home, they've got to be able to eat healthily. Blow the science of it and everything else. They've just got to be able to know what's good for them, how to buy it, and how to make a few dishes that they enjoy and don't cost too much.

Work appealed to me; school did not. I was a disinterested, bored student.

You really have to get to know Dewey to dislike him.

Honestly, racism is something learned, not something that you just pick up one day and wish to dislike someone.

I can speak to my experience and say that CalArts worked out very well for me. After CalArts, I went to Cartoon Network, and then came to Disney.

I wasn't a kid trying to become famous. I wasn't a part of any Disney Channel wheelhouse. I was basically a black kid whose parents put him into the business so he could go to college.

I don't come from a lot, so Disney gave me the opportunity to go to college, which is great. My brother and I are some of the first in our family to ever do that.

There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.

So human capital makes ideas, and ideas help make human capital. But still, they're conceptually distinct.

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.

I personally find the ideas that girls need to cover their shoulders in school a little bit strange... when we're telling girls, you know, 'You have to cover your shoulders because otherwise you're a distraction to other people in your class,' probably something is wrong.

I don't want no distractions on Melo. So therefore I'm going to home-school him and make him the best basketball player ever.

We have to be as passionate about wealth creation, skills, life chances and world class education as we are about wealth distribution.

I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.

Schools should be diverse if we are to get past racial differences.

All students, no matter their background, benefit from having a diverse classroom experience.

We have a lot of work we need to do to make sure all of our children have a better understanding of this diverse and wonderful and beautiful world.

My school was actually really diverse.

What I'm really excited for is to see the evolution of trans characters and see more diverse stories be told, so that every time we're on screen, we're not really playing the part of educator and having to explain the experience to the audience, because it will have already been normalized.